[expertfinder-dev] Re: Expertise and Trust Vocabs

[Tom Heath]

Hi Alex :)

> > I'm not sure if you've seen my draft Hoonoh ontology Andreas. It takes
> > a slightly different approach, but fulfils the same kind of role. For
> > example, using the ExpertiseRelationship class and associated
> > properties one can describe an expertise relationship between a
> > foaf:Person and a Topic (hoonoh:Topic, subclass of skos:Concept), and
> > assign this relationship a value. I hope that it's a relatively clean
> > bit of modelling, but would be pleased to get feedback.

> One thing that must be thinked about is also provenance of each
> ExpertiseRelationship statements. Once in general it is useful to have
> this for any RDF statements this is even more true here, when dealing
> with trust.

Totally agreed.

> Eg, I can say that X is expert in Y at 0.8 but one may think he's only 0.2.
> Don't we need a definedBy property ? (w/ hoonoh:ExpertiseRelationship
> as domain and foaf:Person as range), or the inverse, eg
> definesRelationship

We'll be using Named Graphs to achieve this effect, which I think is
technically the right way to go and saves introducing another
property.

Cheers,

Tom.